Big big news, Chicken Corner fans, the duck population has gone through the roof. We have two new ducks! All very exciting as we transported them back to the farm and as I had suspected, their cackling quacks produced a less than relaxing journey home. I couldn’t wait for them to meet the drake .. unfortunately, my animal whispering abilities were not at peek capacity as I had judged his desires completely and utterly wrong.
So here’s what happened ….. I placed the girls into the pen and imagining a passionate embrace, in reality, they greeted each other with a cacophony of hissing and pecking, running and rioting. My fear that the drake might prefer chickens for company was confirmed when he flew out of the pen to join the frizzle Pekin and light Sussex. Perhaps he will never get over his first love, and in ten years time be one of the callers on the Jeremy Vine Radio 2 Show along with all the other 50 year olds, who, unbeknown to their current wives, still harbour a photograph of their first love in their wallet .. I hope he doesn’t follow this road, and his new girls patch up his broken heart.
So far, they don’t seem to be doing much needle-work, as they plop into the washing-up-bowl-pond re-enacting a truly animalistic Mean Girls interpretation of “you can’t sit with us”. Its been a couple of days now, and I know the act of courtship cannot be rushed but right now, I can confirm it’s a love-HATE relationship!
Bye chicks x
